President John Dramani Mahama
The Business community in the Techiman Metropolis of the Bono East Region has welcomed the new government, anticipating robust and viable economic reforms from the President John Dramani Mahama’s administration to grow and stabilize the economy.
According to the business entrepreneurs, traders and market women, their expectations from the government towards reviving and stabilising the economy remained higher to spur rapid socio-economic growth and development and thereby better the lives of the people.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the Techiman Central Market, the business men and women reminded President Mahama of his Election 2024 campaign promises, putting emphasis on the implementation of the 24-hour economy and the Women’s Bank policy.
Describing those economic policy interventions as laudable, they called on the President to “stick to his words” and fulfill his campaign promises of job and wealth creation.
Ransford Yeboah, the Chief Executive Officer for God is Good Group of Companies said the “change of government is in the right direction and I therefore anticipate that President Mahama empowers the business community as he promised”.
“I received the President’s inaugural address with excitement because with his economic interventions and reforms, my businesses would flourish too and create more jobs for the local people”, he stated.
A Vegetable seller, Madam Mary Naadensua Akuamoah also expressed joy with the successful inauguration the new government, saying “we are ready to welcome the establishment of the Women’s Bank policy”.
With the establishment of the Bank, she said more women would be able to do and expand their business and other economic activities by accessing the interest free loans as anticipated.
Kwodow Kwakye, a cashew farmer also said he was highly optimistic that “things will change for the better” to ameliorate the economic hardship in the county now.
“The government must also focus on reforming the education sector because the state of education in the country is a mess,” Mr Frederick Asante Kromo a resident Parent stated.
Some of the market women also described the Women’s Bank policy as a “saviour” of and to sustain their businesses and hoped that the bank would be established soon for them to access financial support.
